Re: private constructors and inheritance

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 29 April 2014 at 13:59:30 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
//blah1.d
class A
{
    private this(){}
}


//blah2.d

import blah1;

class B : A {}


$ dmd blah1.d blah2.d -lib
Error: constructor blah1.A.this is not accessible from module 
blah2

Can someone explain why this can't/doesn't work? Thanks.

Also, I noticed that adding a blank constructor ( this(){} ) to B 
didn't help, but adding a blank template constructor ( this()(){} 
) makes the error go away.